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Asian American identities and practices : folkloric expressions in everyday life / edited by Jonathan H.X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau.

Contributor(s): Lee, Jonathan H. X [edt] | Nadeau, Kathleen M, 1952- [edt]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780739147320; 0739147323; 9780739147337; 0739147331Subject(s): Asian Americans -- Folklore | Asian Americans -- Social life and customsLOC classification: GR111.A75 | A78 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : disciplines and discourses in Asian American folklore and folklife : prospects, patterns, practices, and problems in an emerging landscape / Jonathan H.X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau -- Folklore and Asian American humor : stereotypes, politics, and self / Ayako Yoshimura -- Folklore and the visual culture of Burmese America : domestic Buddhist practices and the Dhammananda Monastery / Winston Kyan -- The "movement" as folklore : Asian American college youth and vernacular expressions of Asian Pacific American heritage / Dawn Lee Tu -- Once upon a time in Chinese America : literary folktales in American picture books / Lorraine Dong -- Things matter : Chinese American culture work and the gods of Marysville / Jonathan H.X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Finding the missing pieces : Korean American adoptees and the production of ritual / Soojin Pate -- Filipino folklore, space, and performance / Francis Tanglao-Aguas -- Forging transnational folklore : Cambodian American hip hop / Cathy L. Schlund-Vials -- Japanese American appropriation of folkloric symbols through origami and hip hop / Brett Esaki -- Igorot American folk dance : performance, identity, and the paradox of decolonization / Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H.X. Lee -- Guangong : the Chinese god of war and literature in America : from celestial stranger to common culture (1850-2011 CE) / Jonathan H.X. Lee -- Folklore as a sacred heritage : Vietnamese indigenous religions in California / Janet Hoskins -- Of flying brooms and sorcerers : spell-castings, love potions, and supernatural plants / Rossina Zamora Liu -- Korean folklore in the lives of Korean American Christian women / Christine Hong -- Late-life, mortuary, and memorial rituals in the Japanese American community / Ronald Y. Nakasone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : disciplines and discourses in Asian American folklore and folklife : prospects, patterns, practices, and problems in an emerging landscape / Jonathan H.X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau -- Folklore and Asian American humor : stereotypes, politics, and self / Ayako Yoshimura -- Folklore and the visual culture of Burmese America : domestic Buddhist practices and the Dhammananda Monastery / Winston Kyan -- The "movement" as folklore : Asian American college youth and vernacular expressions of Asian Pacific American heritage / Dawn Lee Tu -- Once upon a time in Chinese America : literary folktales in American picture books / Lorraine Dong -- Things matter : Chinese American culture work and the gods of Marysville / Jonathan H.X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray -- Finding the missing pieces : Korean American adoptees and the production of ritual / Soojin Pate -- Filipino folklore, space, and performance / Francis Tanglao-Aguas -- Forging transnational folklore : Cambodian American hip hop / Cathy L. Schlund-Vials -- Japanese American appropriation of folkloric symbols through origami and hip hop / Brett Esaki -- Igorot American folk dance : performance, identity, and the paradox of decolonization / Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H.X. Lee -- Guangong : the Chinese god of war and literature in America : from celestial stranger to common culture (1850-2011 CE) / Jonathan H.X. Lee -- Folklore as a sacred heritage : Vietnamese indigenous religions in California / Janet Hoskins -- Of flying brooms and sorcerers : spell-castings, love potions, and supernatural plants / Rossina Zamora Liu -- Korean folklore in the lives of Korean American Christian women / Christine Hong -- Late-life, mortuary, and memorial rituals in the Japanese American community / Ronald Y. Nakasone.

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